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Hi all,

The wraps are nearly off the new NVidia Pascal GPU chipset.

It looks like a bit of a monster:

The GP100 has 3,584 32-bit (single precision) CUDA cores, and 1,792 64-bit (double precision) CUDA cores, per GPU. The 32-bit cores can also run 16-bit (half precision) calculations.

The L2 cache size is 4MB and there's 14MB of shared registers that can shift data internally at 80TB/s. The base clock speed is 1.3GHz, boosting to 1.4GHz and 5.304 TFLOPS with double-precision math (21 TFLOPS using half-precision). The TDP is 300W. The cores are arranged into 56 SMs (streaming multiprocessors)...

A consumer based version is likely to be shown in June at E3.

This would be awesome on BOINC !!

More info here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/06 ... _gtc_2016/

regards
Tim

UBT - Timbo wrote:
This would be awesome on BOINC !!
Tim

Yeah Titans will drop to half price!! i see these new cards being over 1000 when the finally come out.

nick wrote:Yeah Titans will drop to half price!! i see these new cards being over 1000 when the finally come out.

Now that would be worth holding out for...a nice cheap Titan would really be rather nice. Or any high 9xx series would do - I'm not fussy

My birthday is in the summer, so maybe I can ask the family for donations towards one

regards
Tim

UBT - Timbo wrote: Now that would be worth holding out for...a nice cheap Titan would really be rather nice. Or any high 9xx series would do - I'm not fussy
Tim

they just announced June for the release of the consumer line for NVidia so July for stores probably and announcing June for amd but not selling till July

Hi

Looks like more info on the NVidia Pascal has been released.

From one report, (back in April 2016) it was suggested there won't be any "volume" type products until Q1 2017...so I guess they meant GPU cards.

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/19/ ... ascal-gpu/

And yet, just a couple of days ago, this appeared:

http://videocardz.com/59558/nvidia-gefo ... benchmarks

So, GTX1080 and 1070 GPU cards have been benchmarked

And now NVidia has published more info:

http://videocardz.com/59604/nvidia-anno ... e-gtx-1080

Price wise the 1080 will undercut the current 980 TI by $50 ($599 vs $649) for the standard edition

And available from 27th May !!

I think I might just wait and see if any of the Maxwell Series start being flogged off on fleabay soon, once the fanboys know that they can get a 1080 or 1070 sometime soon.

regards
Tim

looks like i might be getting a 1070 in a few months if it is better than a titan for less money

well i just saw a 1080 on amazon for 569.99 prices are starting to drop to what they should be 1070s are still over priced. another month or so and they might be in reach especially if the drop a 1080ti even the amd route the 470 and 480 are at inflated prices still.

If anyone's interested, Currys/PC World EBAY store is selling an ASUS 1070 for £340 during Black Friday

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122189695199? ... EBIDX%3AIT

Not the fastest 1070 around but not the slowest either and it exhausts out of the backplate not into the case for those with cooling issues.

Regards,

Mark

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Never mind, all sold out now
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